June Jobs
JUNE
Ornamental Garden:
- Lightly trim box balls – traditionally on Derby Day 6th June (Derby Day postponed to 2021)!! Would be nice to encourage the box topiary to grow larger while retaining the shape.
- Deadheading – salvia’s as the flower heads go over, penstemons, roses etc.
- Consider spraying any plants infected with aphids or black fly with SB Plant Invigorator.
- Weed!!!
- Prune early flowering clematis.
- Cut back foliage of tulips.
- Trim other shrubs to shape as necessary.
- Plant warm season grasses such as penisetum and panicum.
- Treat bindweed/ground elder and other invasive weeds growing among other plants by applying a glyphosate based weed killer to their leaves.
- Prune ornamental cherries after their flowers have faded.
- There is still time to sow quick germinating annuals such as cosmos.
- Sow winter bedding such as violas etc.
- Cut back oriental poppies/pulmonaria etc after they have flowered. Remove all leaf as well to allow for fresh leaves to sprout.
- Remove reverted shoots form variegated shrubs etc.
Vegetable Garden:
- Direct sow carrots for autumn and winter harvest.
- Sow Florence fennel and chicory.
- Plant out leeks once they are pencil thick.
- Mulch strawberries with matting or straw.
- Water potatoes for good sized tubers.
- Feed tomatoes with regularly.
- Ventilate greenhouse.
Written by: Alex Bell, www.alexbellgardendesign.co.uk
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